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30The Personal and Family SpheresSchools and Universities AttendedPetersschule, Munich, Germany (Catholic primary school), fall 1885–1888Luitpold Gymnasium, Munich, Germany (secondary school), fall 1888–December 1894Home study in Milan, January–fall 1895Aargau Cantonal School, Aarau, Switzerland (secondary school), fall 1895–fall 1896Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (ETH) (university level), fall 1896–summer 1900University of Zurich (doctoral work), fall 1900–summer 1905; doctorate conferred, January 1906University of Bern (Habilitation), 1908. A Habilitation—a postdoctoral thesis—is required of doctoral recipients in many European countries to prove they are capable of teaching at a university level and conducting independent, high-quality research. It qualifies holders to supervise doctoral students later in their careers. An “inaugural lecture” was also required to demonstrate one’s ability to teach.Einstein Papers Project (EPP) and The Collected Papersof Albert Einstein (CPAE)(See also Archives, above; and Death, “Last Will and Testament,” below.)Herbert S. Bailey, the director of Princeton University Press (PUP) during the negotia-tions in the 1970s and 1980s that eventually led to the publication of the Einstein archives, called the Press’s publishing endeavor “the greatest of its kind in this century.” Its goal was ambitious: to present to the public Einstein’s published and unpublished writings and corre-spondence, including his personal and scientific correspondence; the scientific, political, and humanitarian writings that had made him famous throughout the world; and his travel diaries, class notes, and vital documents. The volumes would on occasion also include third-party materials that would help document and provide context for Einstein’s thoughts and activities as they played out over his lifetime. The series, to be called The Collected Papers of Albert Ein-stein, was at the time projected to comprise at least twenty volumes and take twenty years to complete. Publication began in late 1985 with the submission of a preliminary manuscript of volume 1 to PUP. At present (2015), approximately thirty years later, the estimates are quite different: the Einstein Papers Project has completed fourteen volumes, and approximately six-teen more are projected to be published before the series is considered complete, most likely before the middle of the century.When Bailey and the Einstein Papers Advisory Board announced their early predictions, they had estimated that the archive contained about 10,000 documents. The count had more than quadrupled, to 42,000, by the time a computerized index was finished in 1980. Following a continual and successful search for new documents by the editors, the number has almost dou-

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30The Personal and Family SpheresSchools and Universities AttendedPetersschule, Munich, Germany (Catholic primary school), fall 1885–1888Luitpold Gymnasium, Munich, Germany (secondary school), fall 1888–December 1894Home study in Milan, January–fall 1895Aargau Cantonal School, Aarau, Switzerland (secondary school), fall 1895–fall 1896Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (ETH) (university level), fall 1896–summer 1900University of Zurich (doctoral work), fall 1900–summer 1905; doctorate conferred, January 1906University of Bern (Habilitation), 1908. A Habilitation—a postdoctoral thesis—is required of doctoral recipients in many European countries to prove they are capable of teaching at a university level and conducting independent, high-quality research. It qualifies holders to supervise doctoral students later in their careers. An “inaugural lecture” was also required to demonstrate one’s ability to teach.Einstein Papers Project (EPP) and The Collected Papersof Albert Einstein (CPAE)(See also Archives, above; and Death, “Last Will and Testament,” below.)Herbert S. Bailey, the director of Princeton University Press (PUP) during the negotia-tions in the 1970s and 1980s that eventually led to the publication of the Einstein archives, called the Press’s publishing endeavor “the greatest of its kind in this century.” Its goal was ambitious: to present to the public Einstein’s published and unpublished writings and corre-spondence, including his personal and scientific correspondence; the scientific, political, and humanitarian writings that had made him famous throughout the world; and his travel diaries, class notes, and vital documents. The volumes would on occasion also include third-party materials that would help document and provide context for Einstein’s thoughts and activities as they played out over his lifetime. The series, to be called The Collected Papers of Albert Ein-stein, was at the time projected to comprise at least twenty volumes and take twenty years to complete. Publication began in late 1985 with the submission of a preliminary manuscript of volume 1 to PUP. At present (2015), approximately thirty years later, the estimates are quite different: the Einstein Papers Project has completed fourteen volumes, and approximately six-teen more are projected to be published before the series is considered complete, most likely before the middle of the century.When Bailey and the Einstein Papers Advisory Board announced their early predictions, they had estimated that the archive contained about 10,000 documents. The count had more than quadrupled, to 42,000, by the time a computerized index was finished in 1980. Following a continual and successful search for new documents by the editors, the number has almost dou-

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